Frans Timmermans

Frans Timmermans (6 May 1961-) was Foreign Minister of the Netherlands from 22 February 2007 to 23 February 2010 (succeeding Uri Rosenthal and preceding Bert Koenders). He was a PvdA politician, and, in 2019, he led the Party of European Socialists during the European Parliament elections.

Biography
Frans Timmermans was born in Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands in 1961, and he worked as a lawyer and as a Royal Netherlands Army intelligence officer before entering politics. In 1998, he was elected to the House of Representatives as a PvdA member, and he served as Foreign Minister from 2007 to 2010. In 2019, he was the Party of European Socialists' candidate for President of the European Commission.